OS X Command Line Utilities

Post by scrollaway » Sun, Aug 30, 2015, 9:34 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #93

scrollaway wrote: post #6

What's with all the buzzfeed-level headlines making HN frontpage the past few days? Not to say this isn't a useful list (for OSX users that is), but I can't possibly be the only one weirded out by this.

> buzzfeed-level headlines making HN frontpage the past few days This is most likely random fluctuation a.k.a. sample bias, but if you know of any that didn't get corrected, please email them to us at hn@ycombinator.com so we can figure out why. People post such titles all the time but we change them systematically. For example, we changed this one shortly after your comment. Normally we'd have replied to your commen…

Post by riffraff » Sun, Aug 30, 2015, 9:37 PM UTC

jd3 wrote: post #75

Great list, not a big fan of homebrew personally, or its creator who seems to be full of himself. I'd recommend pkg_src from joyent[0]. homebrew seems to have a lot of the hip webdev packages, but pkg_src and joyent's repository is the real deal when it comes to hardcore UNIX package management. Some friends have a nice bootstrap for pkg_src on OS X called saveosx[1], too. [0]: https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/install-on-os…

Post by godDLL » Sun, Aug 30, 2015, 9:54 PM UTC

kbd wrote: post #144

rjeli wrote: post #36

pbpaste and pbcopy never really occur in ambiguous situations, so I wrote the following shell script: function clip { [ -t 0 ] && pbpaste || pbcopy } This is easier to type and allows for the following: % echo hello | clip % clip hello

> function clip { [ -t 0 ] && pbpaste || pbcopy } That's great! Would you please explain why that works? Are there any cases you know of where that doesn't work as expected? Edit: btw you need a semicolon after pbcopy to make that function valid on one line.

Post by Zarel » Sun, Aug 30, 2015, 9:57 PM UTC

lukeadams wrote: post #130

algorithms wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do the same so I aliased it to just "chrome", "firefox", etc.

I aliased Sublime to `sub`. Without args it opens the current folder as a project; with args it opens the file[s].

Post by aclissold » Sun, Aug 30, 2015, 9:57 PM UTC

vinceguidry wrote: post #137

Angostura wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Is China or someone else trying to steal your trade secrets? Or more prosaically, do you have any semi-confidential e-mail on your machine, that a coworker might fancy reading?

If you can't trust your coworkers not to go snooping on your machine while you're not there, then you should find a better job. Threat models balloon in complexity when you can't use tools like zones of trust and choke points.